Dr. William K. Dean, 63, a prominent resident of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, was found at the bottom of a cistern one morning in August 1918, bludgeoned and garroted to death.
No one was ever charged in the murder, although theories abounded — including one having to do with a mysterious errand Dean sent a woman on, to go to Boston to get federal authorities to come to town to investigate alleged German activities there. (It was during World War I.)
